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The Origins of the World's Mythologies (Hardcover, New)
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The Origins of the World's Mythologies (Hardcover, New)
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This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since
that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly
invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the
oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology,
comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael
Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our
collective myths, dating back some 100,000 years. Identifying
features shared by this "Out of Africa" mythology and its northern
Eurasian offshoots, Witzel suggests that these common
myths--recounted by the communities of the "African Eve"--are the
earliest evidence of ancient spirituality. Moreover these common
features, Witzel shows, survive today in all major religions.
Witzel's book is an intellectual hand grenade that will doubtless
generate considerable excitement--and consternation--in the
scholarly community. Indeed, everyone interested in mythology will
want to grapple with Witzel's extraordinary hypothesis about the
spirituality of our common ancestors, and to understand what it
tells us about our modern cultures and the way they are linked at
the deepest level.
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